I was treated better than others, simply because there was so much public attention. In my case, they did adhere to the eight-hour workday required by law. The other women were often forced to slave away for up to 16 hours a day.
Nadezhda TolokonnikovaI also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj ลฝiลพek. He is a great role model for me.
Nadezhda TolokonnikovaMen should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.
Nadezhda TolokonnikovaIf I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.
Nadezhda TolokonnikovaI support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.
Nadezhda TolokonnikovaListen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact with the country, which is ours too, not just Putin's and the Patriarch's. Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will crush concrete. Solzhenitsyn wrote, "the word is more sincere than concrete, so words are not trifles. Once noble people mobilize, their words will crush concrete."
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova